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Report 
No. 502. 


TO AMEND THE NATURALIZATION LAWS. 


I April 20, 1918.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union and ordered to be printed. 


I Mr. Sabath, from the Committee on Immigration and Naturali¬ 
zation, submitted the following 

REPOET. 

[To accompany H. R. 11518.] 

The Committee on Immigration and No,turalization, to which was 
I referred the bill (H. R. 11518) to amend the naturalization laws and 
repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 
and other laws relating to natuialization, and for other purposes, 

! reports the same to the House and recommends the bill be,passed. 
It recommends this bill as a war emergency measure and urges its 
passage at the earliest possible moment. The main provisions of 
this bill consist in adding seven subdivisions to section 4 of the act 
of June 29, 1906, being an act to establish a Bureau of Immigration 
and Naturalization, and to provide a uniform rule for the naturali¬ 
zation of aliens throughout the United States. 

The seventh subdivision has been prepared for the purpose of 
unifying the rule of exemptions extended to certain aliens who have 
received military training in the armies of the United States and the 
Philippine Islands, as well as those serving on vessels of the United 
States Government and the American merchant marine. It also 
makes the first enlargement ever authorized of the provisions of 
section 2169 by allowing Filipinos who have served in the United 
States Navy or Marine Corps or the Naval Auxiliary Service, and have 
been honorable discharged therefrom after the term of enlistment 
specified, to petition for naturalization under the conditions and 
limitations as defined in the seventh subdivision, and includes all 
those who are at present in the military service of the United States, 
whether they have declared their intention or not. 

For aU of these classes of cases the seventh subdivision provides 
that a petition for naturalization may be filed in the most con¬ 
venient court and be heard without the usual delays necessitated 
under the general provisions of the naturalization law and without 
the usual proof of residence in the United States required of aliens 








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to whom no exemptions from the general provisions of the naturali¬ 
zation law have been extended. Because of this special method of 
naturalization the subdivision requires the appearance of those 
candidates before a representative of the Bureau of Naturalization 
before filing their petitions for naturalization in the office of the 
clerk of the court. 

It also provides a means for the naturalization of aU of the for¬ 
eigners in the military forces of the United States in whatever 
capacity they may be associated. The subdivision in brief provides 
for the naturalization of those who have taken up arms in defense 
and in the service of the United States Government. 

Further provision is made to prohibit the filing of a declaration 
of intention during 30 days preceding and including election day. 
This provision is analogous to the one which excludes the courts from 
naturalization authdrity during the 30 days preceding election, and 
is a provision that has long been known to have been inadvertently 
overlooked in the enactments heretofore passed. The subdivision 
also prohibits the naturalization of aliens serving on vessels of foreign 
registry, this construction having been maintained by some courts 
in view of the provisions of section 2174, which recognizes service 
of aliens on vessels of American registry. Penal provisions are con¬ 
tained in this subdivision by the terms of which citizenship is for¬ 
feited by those who are naturalized under the terms of the seventh 
subdivision if they are convicted during the time the country is at 
war of the offenses named. It also waives the payment of the 
naturalization fee by the American soldier during the time of war. 

Subdivision 8 safeguards the rights that have for years been given 
to aliens serving on vessels of the American merchant marine and is 
necessary in view of the inclusion in the general codification of sec¬ 
tion 7 of such aliens. 

Subdivision 9 authorizes the continuance of the work of the 
Bureau of Naturalization in connection with the public schools and 
the local Army exemption boards. 

Subdivision 10 contains a reenactment of the act of June 25, 1910, 
in language that is clear in its meaning and continuing the exemp¬ 
tion up to May 1, 1914, instead of May 1, 1910, and includes all in 
the general provisions of the law except the alien enemies who are 
authorized by subdivision 11 to proceed, under the restraint imposed 
by the eleventh subdivision. 

Subdivision 11 authorizes those who by the terms of section 2171 
were excluded from naturalization because they were alien enemies, 
to proceed under the terms of this subdivision to naturalization. It 
includes those who by the act of June 25, 1910, at the time the 
existence of the state of war was declared were entitled to become 
citizens of the United States without making the declaration of 
intention and in addition authorizing those who had declared their 
intention prior to that event and those wno had petitions for naturali¬ 
zation then pending, to perfect their naturalization after the consent 
of the Bureau of Naturalization shall have been received by the 
clerk of the court. It distinctly provides for the hearing in open 
court and in the presence of the representative of the Government 
from the Bureau of Naturalization, and in this particular class of 
aliens provides that the objection of this representative of the Gov¬ 
ernment shall cause the petition of this alien, who has been exempted 

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from the alien enemy classification, to be continued until the Govern¬ 
ment is satisfied as to his loyalty. 

There is a large number of aliens whose loyalty is unquestioned 
and well known who, under the registration of alien enemies, have 
recently had disclosed to them the startling fact that they are not 
citizens of the United States. They are to be found in largest num¬ 
bers in the States where aliens have been voting for generations upon 
the declaration of intention. Instances have been reported to the 
committee of these unfortunate individuals who are Americans at 
heart, who have lived in this country upward of 70 years—they were 
infants when they were brought to this country by their parents 
over 70 years ago—sorne of . them, and have lived almost all their 
lives in States where aliens have been authorized by the State con¬ 
stitutions to vote upon their declaration of intention. These chil¬ 
dren, growing to manhood, have exercised all the rights of American 
citizenship, some of them for nearly a half a century. Some of the 
cases reported to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization 
included those who were legislators in the States where they lived, 
and others who had held elective and appointive offices and who 
have their grandchildren as soldiers in the present war. Cases have 
been reported to the committee of those who were engaged in the 
Civil War, on either side, who have but recently, by reason of the 
registration required by alien enemies, found that they were not 
citizens. The act of June 25, 1910, which is repealed by this act, 
gave them the right to proceed to become naturalized without making 
the declaration of intention. Subdivision 10 reenacts this portion 
of the act of June 25, 1910, but it is not applicable to the alien enemy 
as reenacted. Subdivision 11 provides the means by which those 
who by the act of June 25, 1910, were at the time the state of war 
was declared to exist between this country and their sovereign entitled 
to become citizens of the United States without making the declara¬ 
tion of intention to file their petitions without making the declaration 
of intention, because they have for years in good faith believed them¬ 
selves to be citizens of the United States and have exercised the rights 
and performed the duties of a citizen. While this act will repeal 
that portion of the act of June 25, 1910, referred to, it does not pre¬ 
vent them from filing their petitions for naturalization upon the right 
which was vested in them by the act of 1910, and which was theirs 
at the time the existence of a state of war was declared, although 
their alien enemy status was unknown to them and the necessity to 
exercise that right was not at that time known by them. 

Subdivision 11 also authorizes the Bureau of Naturalization to 
investigate the loyalty of any alien enemy who may apply for 
naturalization and who is not included in those previously exempted, 
and after determining definitely the loyalty of such alien enemy to 
except him from such classification for the purposes of naturalization. 
It also authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for the purpose of 
carrying on the provisions of this act. 

Subdivision 12 authorizes the naturalization of any alien soldiers 
of the United States military or naval forces serving outside of the 
United States, upon return to the United States, and to have the 
period of military service outside of the United States counted as 
residence within the United States to complete the five years. 

Subdivision 13 offers a great relief to hundreds of thousands of 
citizens who secured their American citizenship status by the act of 


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the father in becoming naturalized. Great embarrassments have 
been experienced by those who have secured citizenship through the 
acts of their parents because of the insufficiency in the law to provide 
them with certificates showing their American citizenship. This pro¬ 
vision will relieve all these citizens, and those who hereafter secure 
citizenship by the acts of their parents, by providing a distinctive 
certificate of American citizenship to be issued by the Bureau of 
Naturalization from its records. It wifi be impossible to cause the 
issuance of this certificate of citizenship by the clerks of courts, for 
the reason that the father may have been naturalized in Baltimore 
and subsequently removed himself with his family to St. Louis. His 
children on reaching adult age and desiring to exercise the rights of 
citizenship may be in various parts of the country. None of them 
can secure any evidence of their citizenship, since the law provides 
no certificate of citizenship for them. The clerk of the court in St. 
Louis would be wholly incompetent to issue a certificate of citizen¬ 
ship on the naturalization of the court in Baltimore, and none of the 
clerks of the courts at the places where the sons reside would have 
any means of determining whether or not these sons were actually 
naturalized by the act of their father as alleged. The Bureau of 
Naturalization has the duplicate originals of all naturalization 
records authorized by law to be retained, and it alone is the only 
source from which such certificates of citizenship can be issued and 
the fraudulent issuance of them prevented. In view of the impor¬ 
tance of this certificate of citizenship, and the uses to which it may 
fraudulently be placed, the same penal provisions that surround the 
certificate of naturalization are enacted in connection with this cer¬ 
tificate of citizenship. 

Section 2 contains the numbers of the sections of the Revised 
Statutes that are repealed, and also refers to and quotes the other 
portions of the acts amending the naturalization law that are re¬ 
pealed. The lengthy quotation is necessitated by the fact that in all 
of these instances the acts carrying these provisions have been parts 
of acts which carried appropriations. 

In the general repealing portion of this section the provision as to 
the effect of this act upon section 2169 of the Revised Statutes is 
clearly shown not to enlarge it in any way except as to the Filipino, 
and only in those cases of Filipinos who have performed the service 
in'the Navy as defined in subdivision 7. 

The provisions of section 2166 of the Revised Statutes are not 
repealed in their application to those who were honorably discharged 
in Civil War times and up to and including those who were dis¬ 
charged from the Spanish-American War. 

It also makes the usual provisions regarding the application of the 
criminal statutes in cases of offenses and crimes against the naturali¬ 
zation laws of the United States. 

Section 3 validates all certificates of naturalization that may be 
granted by courts of competent jurisdiction up to December 31, 1918, 
where the declaration of intention has been declared by the Supreme 
Court to be invalid. This relates to declarations of intention made 
prior to the operation of the current naturalization law that were not 
acted upon until after the seven years which the present naturaliza¬ 
tion law prescribes as the limit of the life of a declaration. There 
were probably a hundred thousand aliens naturalized upon declara- 


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tions of intention, between September 27, 1913, and January 7, 1918, 
which had been taken out under the old law and were held by the 
Bureau of Naturalization to be valid. The decision of the Supreme 
Court declared them to be invalid. None of these naturalizations, 
therefore, has been legally conferred, on account of the invalidity of 
the declaration of intention. 

There were probably many petitions filed in January, in good 
faith, by foreigners whose declarations of intention that were not 
valid under the Supreme Court decision, after the decision, and before 
the notice from the Bureau of Naturalization was received by the 
clerk of the court. This notice was sent at once, but in order to 
embrace all that may have filed, the date of January 31, 1918, has 
been named as the final and inclusive date, and December 31, 1918, 
as the date when these petitions may be acted upon. Under the 
present law they will all have an opportunity to be disposed of. 

This section also classifies the positions of naturalization assistants 
where the compensation has been paid by the Department of Labor 
under the authority of various appropriations and section 13 of the 
act of June 29, 1906. This has been urged heretofore by the Depart¬ 
ment of Labor because of many gross irregularities that have grown 
up by the acts of these clerks and because of the inability of the clerks 
01 courts to supervise their work. This will place them immediately 
under the Bureau of Naturalization and prevent and wholly eradicate 
these practices, and also result in a more economical expenditure of 
the funds from the appropriations. 

The committee has most carefully considered this bill and held 
extensive hearings covering many weeks. At these hearings it has 
learned from the report of the Provost Marshal General that 123, 277 
aliens waived all exemptions on account of their alienage and were 
certified to the first draft army. The second draft army, with its 
larger quota and prospective legislation further increasing the mili¬ 
tary forces of the United States will bring in ever increasing numbers 
of other loyal foreign born men who owe an allegiance in their heart 
to the United States, the country of their adoption. This will 
probably mean that 500,000 loyal foreign-born residents of this 
country will join our colors in the next year. All of these should 
have the privilege of citizenship conferred upon them while they are 
taking up this most fundamental and sacred of all obligations of 
citizenship—the obligation and willingness to take up arms against 
the common enemy. 

During the last year there has been unprecedented increase in the 
number of applications for citizenship in addition to those candi¬ 
dates for citizenship disclosed by the reports of the Provost Marshal 
General. The number of candidates for citizenship in the civil life 
has been greater during the last year than at any time. The number of 
naturalizations smee the European war conimenced in 1914 has been 
greater than at any other time, notwithstanding the fact that immigra¬ 
tion has been only on an average of about 300,000 annually. Oyer 
75,000 petitions for naturalization were filed during the first nine 
months of this year, while the average number of foreigners admitted 
to citizenship annually heretofore has been but slightly moie than 
70,000. 

In addition to this, attention is particularly called to the large 
number of foreigners who have been classified by law as alien enemies. 


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Among these, it is well known, are large numbers—hundreds of 
thousands—who are loyal and devoted wholly to this country. These 
foreigners feel the stigma of their alien-enemy status—many of them 
have innocently believed themselves to be citizens under the Federal 
and State laws. Registration of alien enemies during the past year 
has disclosed the fact that they had not completed their citizenship 
in accordance with the law, although they had exercised all of the 
rights for many years. Particular attention is also invited to the 
provision which will enable the alien who secures citizenship by the 
act of his father to receive the certificate of United States citizenship 
which this bill for the first time authorizes to be created and issued. 

Because of all of these most insistent remedial measures, the con- 
mittee has recommended the appropriation of $500,000. This 
amount has been found to be the minimum amount necessary, after 
careful investigation and study both by the committee and by the 
Bureau of Naturalization of the Department of Labor. The subject 
matter of this bill as contained in the bill H. R. No. 6347 has been 
approved by the Department of Labor. Certain modifications have 
been made in the bill since that time by the committee as the result 
of subsequent experience. 

For the convenience and information of the Congress, the com¬ 
mittee is submitting herewith a statement showing the receipts from 
the naturalization fees, and the total expenditures from appropria¬ 
tions heretofore made by Congress for the administration of the 
naturalization law. From this statement it will be seen at once 
that the citizen taxpayer is at no expense for carrying on this branch 
of the Government. The revenues from the fees paid by the appli¬ 
cants for American citizenship which, under the law, are covered into 
the Treasury of the United States have more than offset all of the 
appropriations by Congress. 

Statement showing receipts from naturalization fees and disbursements from various appro¬ 
priations for the enforcement of the naturalization laws, and for rents, supplies, and 

miscellaneous expenses, for fiscal years 1907 to date. 


Fiscal year. 

Naturaliza- 
t ion fees 
received. . 

Cost of admin¬ 
istration. 

Cost in excess 
of fees 
received. 

Excess of fees 
received over 
cost of ad¬ 
ministration. 

1907. 

*65,129.00 
166,873.90 
172,202.13 
221,766.38 
290,551.52 
338,315.33 
350,716.60 

450.228.55 
441,764.49 

410.272.55 
635,037.02 

134,312.00 

111,887.70 

116,500.00 

*29,243.18 
232,728.05 
194,428.45 
176,415.98 

228.831.15 
2.57,678.99 
290,026.20 
331,517.26 
363,593.11 
389,075.90 

393.240.15 

93,835.27 

92,427.78 

293 , 747.54 


*35, 885.82 

1908. 

*65,854.15 
22,226,32 

1909. 


1910. 

45.350.40 

67.720.37 
80,636.34 

60.690.40 
118,711.29 

78.171.38 
21,196.65 

241,796.87 

40,476.73 

19,459.92 

22,752.46 

1911. 


1912. 


1913.:. 


1914. 


1915. 


1916.•. 


1917. 


1918: 

First quarter. 


Second quarter. 


Third quarter i. 


Total. 


3,905,557.17 

3,160,789.01 

88,080.47 

83'’, 848 63 
88,C8J.47 

Less deficits. 

Excess of fees received over cost of ad- 
mioistration. 







744,768.16 


1 Third quarter estimated. All remittances not yet received for the quarter from the clerks of courts. 

* Expenditures estimated. All expense vouchers for the third quarter not yet received from field em¬ 
ployees 


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Estimate of personnel and expenses for naturalization of alien enemies, derivative citizens, 

and American soldiers. 


Alien enemies and derivative citizens. 

Military. 

District. 

E^'am- 

Clerks. 

Salaries. 

Ex- 

Exam- 

Clerks. 

Salaries. 

Ex- 


iners. 



penses. 

iners. 



penses. 

Boston. 

3 

1 

$6,100 

S2,000 

1 

4 

$6,800 

$2,000 

New York. 

22 

6 

43,000 

5,000 

2 

6 

11,000 

2 ; 500 

Philadelphia. 

5 

3 

li;900 

5 ; 000 

1 

4 

6; 800 

2 ; 000 

Washington, D. C. 

6 

2 

12', 200 

10,000 

15 

30 

63,000 

16,000 

Pittsburgh. 

5 

3 

11,900 

5,000 

1 

4 

6,800 

2,000 

Chicago. 

12 

6 

27,000 

7,500 

3 

8 

15,200 

4,000 

St. Paul. 

5 

2 

10,600 

7,000 





St. Louis. 

12 

6 

27' 000 

7,500 

4 

8 

16,800 

4,000 

Denver. 

3 

1 

6,100 

3,500 

1 

4 

6,800 

2,000 

Seatl le. 

6 

2 

12,200 

7,500 

1 

5 

8; 100 

2,500 

San Francisco. 

6 

2 

12,200 

7,500 

2 

6 

11,000 

2,500 


85 

34 

180,200 

64,500 

31 

79 

152,300 

39,500 


RECAPITULATION. 



Exam¬ 

iners. 

Clerks. 

Sala¬ 

ries. 

Ex¬ 

penses. 

Naturalization of alien enemies and derivative citizens. 

85 

34 

$180,200 

152,300 

$64,500 

39,500 

Naturalization of American soldiers. 

31 

79 


Total. 

116 

113 

332,500 

104,000 


Annual cost. Julv 1. 1918. to June 30. 1919... 




332.500 

436.500 
106,300 

Cost to June 30. 1918_.'. . 





Total. . 




542,800 

42,800 

Estimated amount not needed because some of the clerks and examiners will be only temporarily 
emnloved.. 





Total amount estimated as necessary to give force and effect to all portions of the bill H. R. 
3132 from date of passage through present fiscal year and throughout the fiscal year 1919.. 

500,000 


The committee has also carefully surveyed the military situation, 
and presents in the following tables the locations of the various 
Army camps and cantonments and their relation to the Naturaliza¬ 
tion Service by districts. Some realization can be had of the mag¬ 
nitude of the naturalization work that will be necessary to accom¬ 
plish the naturalization of the members of the first draft army alone, 
when it is understood that in no entire fiscal year in the history of the 
Government have there been so many petitions for naturalization 
granted as must be granted to the 123,277 aliens in the first draft 
army. The largest number receiving citizenship in any fiscal year 
was 105,439. 

NATURALIZATION DISTRICTS. 


Boston, Mass.: 

1 cantonment. 30,000 

24 other Army camps. 12,000 

5 naval and marine stations... 18,000 

New York, N. Y.: 

2 cantonments. 60,000 

10 other Army camps. 8, 500 

2 naval and marine stations.: - - - 7, 800 

Philadelphia, Pa.: 

1 cantonment. 30,000 

4 other Army camps. 5, 500 

1 naval and marine station. 4, 400 










































































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Washington, D. C.: 

17 cantonments. 

34 other Army camps. 

6 naval and marine stations 
Pittsburgh, Pa.: 

1 cantonment. 

3 other Army camps. 

Chicago, Ill.: 

3 cantonments. 

4 other Army camps. 

St. Louis, Mo.: 

4 cantonments. 

9 other Army camps. 

St. Paul, Minn.:' 

3 other Army camps. 

Denver, Colo.: 

1 cantonment. 

5 other Army camps. 

San Francisco, Cal.: 

1 cantonment. 

9 other Army camps. 

4 naval and marine stations. 
Seattle, Wash.: 

1 cantonment. 

13 other Army camps. 

2 naval and marine stations. 


510,000 
74, 500 
50,000 

30,000 
5,000 . 

90, 000 
5, 500 

120,000 
8, 000 

5, 500 

30, 000 
2, 500 

30,000 
4, 500 
11, 500 

30, 000 

6, 500 
6,000 


Totals: 

Cantonments. 960,000 

Other Army camps. 138, 000 

Naval and marine stations. 97, 700 


Boston District. 

ARMY CAMPS. 


Ayer, Mass.: Camp Devens, National Army. 30,000 

Portland, Me.: 

Fort Lyon, regular fort. 500 

Fort McKinley, regular fort. 500 

Fort Preble, regular fort. 500 

Fort Levett, regular fort. 500 

Fort Williams, regular fort-.. 500 

Fort Foster, regular fort. 500 

Portsmouth, N. H.: 

Fort Constitution, regular fort. 500 

Fort Starlc, regular fort. 500 

Montpelier, Vt.: Fort Ethan Allen, regular fort. 500 

Boston, Mass. (Winthrop Br.): 

Fort Heath, regular fort. 500 

Fort Banks, regular fort. 500 

Fort Strong, regular fort. 500 

Fort Standish, regular fort. 500 

Warren, Mass.: Fort Warren, regular fort. 500 

Hull, Mass.: Fort Revere, regular fort. 500 

Fort Andrews, Mass.: Fort Andrews, regular fort. 500 

Newport, R. I.: 

Fort Rodman, New Bedford, Mass., regular fort. 500 

Fort Ereble, regular fort. • 500 

Fort Eddy, regular fort. 500 

Fort Phil Kearney, Fort Greble, R. I., regular fort. 500 

Fort Adams, regular fort. 500 

Fort Wetherill, Jamestown, R. I., regular fort. 500 

New London, Conn.: 

Fort Mansfield, Watch Hill, R. I., regular fort.. 500 

Fort H. C. Wright, regular fort. 500 


Total. 42,000 






















































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NAVAL AND MARINE CAMPS. 


Boston, Mass.: Naval Reserve Station and temporary camp. 3,000 

Chatham, Mass., Aviation, naval. 1,000 

Newport, R. I.: 

Naval training station. 10, 000 

Naval reserve training station. 2, 000 

New London,-Conn., temporary naval camp. 2, 000 


Total. 18,000 


New York District. 

ARMY CAMP.S. 


Mineola, N. Y.: Camp Mills, National Army. 30,000 

Yaphank, N. Y.: Camp Upton, National Army. 30,000 

Plattsbiirg, N. Y.: Officers’ training camp. 4,000 

New York, N. Y.: 

Fort Michie, New London, Conn., regular fort. 500 

Fort Terry, Fort Terry, regular fort. 500 

Fort Totten, Fort Totten, regular fort. 500 

Fort Schuyler, Westchester, regular fort. 500 

Fort Slocum, New Rochelle, regular fort. 500 

Fort Wadsworth (Rosebank, N. Y.), regular fort. 500 

Fort Jay (New York, N. Y.), regular fort. 500 

Fort Hamilton, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, regular fort. 500 

Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. Y., regular fort. 500 


Total. 68, 500 

Watertown, N. Y., Madison Barracks. 


NAVAL AND MARINE CAMPS. 


New York, Rockaway Park: 

Rockaway Park Naval A\dation Station. 

Hazelhurst Naval Aviation Station. 

Mon tank Point: Montauk Point Naval Aviation Station. 

Brooklyn, N. Y.: Temporary naval camp. 2,800 

Pelman Bay, N, Y.: Pelman Bay Naval Reserve Training Station. 5,000 


Total. 7,800 


Philadelphia District. 

ARMY CAMPS. 


Wrightstown, N. J.: Camp Dix, National Army. 30,000 

Freehold, N. J.: Fort Hancock, regular fort. 500 

Salem, N. J.: Fort Mott, regular fort. 500 

Allentown, Pa.: Training camp, medical.. 4,000 

Wilmington, Del.: Fort Du Pont, regular fort. 500 


Total. 35,500 


naval and marine camps. 


Philadelphia, Pa.: Temporary naval camp.. 
Camp May, N. J.: Camp May Naval Station 


4, 400 
















































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Washington, D. C. District. 

ARMY camps. 

yland: 

Baltimore, Md.— 

Fort Carroll, regular fort. 500 

Fort McHenry, regular fort. 500 

Fort Howard, regular fort. 500 

Fort Smallwood, regular fort. 500 

Annapolis Junction, Md.: Camp Meade, National Army. 30, 000 


Total. 32, 000 


District of Columbia: 

Washington, D. C.— 

Washington Barracks, army station. 

Camp Meigs, Quartermaster Corps. 15, 000 

American University, engineer station. 

In Maryland: Fort Washington, regular fort. 500 

In Vii’ginia: Fort Myer, regular fort, officers’ training camp. 5, 000 

In Virginia: Fort Hunt, regular fort. 500 

In Virginia: Belvoir, engineer camp. 1,000 


Total. 22, 000 


Virginia: 

Petersburg, Va.: Camp Lee, National Army. 30,000 

Front Royal, Army Remount. 

Norfolk, Va.— 

Fort Monroe, regular fort. 500 

Fort Monroe, Coast Artillery Corps school.:. 


Total. 30,500 


North Carolina: 

Charlotte, N. C.: Camp Greene, National Guard. 30,000 

Wilmington, N. C.: Fort Caswell, regular fort. 500 


Total. ' . 30,500 


South Carolina: 

Spartanburg, S. C.: Camp Wadsworth, National Guard. 80,000 

Greenville, S. C.: Camp Sevier, National Guard. 30,000 

Columbia, S. C.: Camp Jackson, National Army. 30, 000 

Charleston, S. C.: Fort Moultrie, regular fort. 500 

Charleston, S. C.: Fort Sumter, regular fort. 500 

Fort Royal, S. C.: Fort Fremont, regular fort. 500 


Total. 91,500 


Georgia: 

Augusta, Ga.— 

Camp Hancock, National Guard.:... 30,000 

Fort Oglethorpe— 

Regular fort, officers’ training camp. 


Dental training camp. 10,000 

Atlanta, Ga.— 

Camp Gordon, National Army. 30,000 

Fort McPherson, regular fort. 500 

Macon, Ga.: Camp Wheeler, National Guard.. 30,000 

Savannah, Ga.: Fort Screven, regular fort. 500 


Total. 101,000 


























































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Florida: 

Jacksonville, Fla.: Camp Johnston, Quartermaster Corps and remount.. 25,000 

Arcadia, Fla.: Army aviation. 

Fort Dade, regular fort. 500 

Tampa, Fla.: Fort De Soto, regular fort. 500 

Pensacola, Fla.— 

Fort Barrancas, regular fort. 500 

Fort McPoe, regular fort. 500 

Fort Pickens, regular fort. 500 


Total. 27,500 


Alabama: 

Anniston, Ala.: Camp McClellan, National Guard. 30,000 

Montgomery, Ala.— 

Camp Sheridan, National Guard. 30,000 

Taylor Field, Army aviation. 

Mobile, Ala.— 

Fort Gaines, regular fort.. 500 

Fort Morgan, regular fort. 500 


Total. 61, 000 


Mississippi: Hattiesburg, Miss.: Camp Shelby, National Guard. 30,000 


Louisiana: 

Alexandria, La.: Camp Beauregard, National Guard. 30,000 

New Orleans, La.: Jackson Barracks, regular fort.. 500 

Lake Charles, La.: Gestner Field, Army aviation. 


Total. 30,500 


Texas: 

Wichita Falls; Call Field, Army aviation 


Camp Bowie, National Guard. 30,000 

Dallas; Love Field, Army aviation. 

Waco— 

Camp McArthur, National Guard. 30,000 

Rich Field, Army aviation. 

Houston: Camp Logan, National Guard. 30,000 

Galveston— 

Fort Travis, regular fort. 500 

Fort San Jacinto, regular fort. 500 

Fort Crockett, regular fort. 500 

San Antonio: Camp Travis, National Army. 30, 000 

Leon Springs; Officers’ training camp. 

San Antonio: Fort Sam Houston, regular fort. 500 

Ringgold: Fort Rinpgold, regular fort. 500 

Laredo: Fort McIntosh, regular fort. 500 

Brackettville: Fort Bliss, regular fort. 500 


123, 500 


NAVAL AND MARINE CAMPS. 


Washington, D. C.: Marine barracks, marine station. 

Quantico, Va.: Marine camp. 8,000 

Morrison, Va. (Newport News): Naval training station. 15, 000 

Newport News, Va.: Langley Field, naval aviation. 

Jamestown, Norfolk, Va.: Naval training station.•. 16,000 

Charleston, S. C.; Temporary naval camp. 5,000 

Port Royal, S. C.: Marine training station... 5,000 

Miami, Fla.: Naval aviation. 

Key West, Fla.: Marine training station. 1,000 




























































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Pensacola, Fla.: 

Naval training station. 

Naval aviation... 

Gulfport, Miss.: Naval training station 
New Orleans, La.: 

Naval training station. 

Marine barracks. 


^ Total. 50,000 


Pittsburgh District. 


ARMY CAMPS. 

Buffalo, N._Y.: 

Fort Niagara, officers’ training camp. 4,000 

Fort Porter. 500 

Chillicothe, Ohio: Camp Sherman, National Army. 30,000 

Fairfield, Ohio: Wilbur Wright Field A. 

Dayton, Ohio: Fort McCook. 

Newport, Ky.: Fort Thomas, regular fort.. 500 


Total. 35,000 


Chicago District. 

ARMY CAMPS, 


Louisville, Ky.: Camp Zachary Taylor, National Army. 30,000 

Indianapolis, Ind.: Fort Benjamin Harrison, officers’ training camp. 4,000 

Battle Creek, Mich.: Camp Custer. National Army. 30,000 

Detroit, Mich.: Fort Wayne, regular fort... 500 

Mount Clemons, Mich.: Selfridge Field, Army aviation. 

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.: Fort Brady, regular fort. 550 

Rockford, Ill.: Camp Grant, National Army. 30,000 

Chicago, Ill.: Fort Sheridan, regular fort. 500 

Rantoul, Ill.: Chanute Field, Army aviation. 


Total.-. 95,500 


NAVAL AND MARINE CAMPS. 

Great Lakes Naval Training Station. 

St. Louis District. 

ARMY CAMPS. 


Belleville, Ill.: Scott Field, Army aviation. 

Des Moines, Iowa: 

Camp Dodge, National Army. 30, 000 

Fort Des Moines, regular fort. 500 


Little Rock, Ark.: 

Camp Pike, National Army.. 30, 000 

Fort Logan H. Roots, regular fort. 500 

Fort Logan, Everts Field, Army aviation. 

Hot Springs, Ark.: Army and Navy Hospital. 


Fort Robinson, Nebr.: Fort Robinson, regular fort. 500 

Omaha: 

Fort Omaha, regular fort. 500 

Fort Crook, regular fort... 500 

Army Balloon School. 

Fort Riley, Kans.: 

Camp Funston, National Army. 30, 000 

Fort Riley, regular fort. 500 

Leavenworth: Fort Leavenworth, regular fort. 500 



















































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Fort Sill, Okla.: 

Camp Doniphan, National Guard. 30,000 

Army, Army aviation. 

Fort Sill, regular fort. 500 

Fort Sill, officers’ training camp. 4,000 


Total. 128,000 


St. Paul District. 

ARMY CAMPS. 


Minneapolis, Minn.: Fort Snelling, regular fort, officers’ training camp. 4, 500 

Bismarck, N. Dak.: Fort Lincoln, regular fort. 500 

Sturgis, S. Dak.: Fort Meade, regular fort. 500 


Total. 5,500 


Denver District. 

ARMY CAMPS. 


Wyoming: Fort McKenzie, regular fort. 500 

Cheyenne: 

Fort D. A. Russell, regular fort.*. 500 

Fort Yellowstone. 

Salt Lake City, Utah: Fort Douglas, regular fort. 500 

Denver, Colo.: Fort Logan, regular fort. 500 

Doming, N. Mex.: 

Camp Cody, National Guard. 30, 000 

Fort Bayard, regular fort. 500 


Total. 32, 500 


San Francisco District. 

ARMY CAMPS. 


San Francisco, Cal.: 

Benicia Arsenal, fort, regular fort. 500 

Fort McDowell, regular fort. 500 

Alcatraz, regular fort. 500 

Miley, regular fort. 500 

Baker, regular fort. 500 

W. Scott, regular fort. 500 

Presidio, regular fort. 500 

Los Angeles, Cal.: 

Camp Kearney, National Guard. 30, 000 

North Island, Army aviation. 

San Diego, Cal.: 

Fort McArthur, regular fort. 500 

Fort Rosecrans, regular fort. 500 

Rockwell Field, Army aviation. 


Total. 34,500 


NAVAL training AND MARINE CAMPS. 


San Francisco, Cal.: 

Yerba Buena, naval training station. 2, 000 

Mare Island, temporary naval camp. 5, 000 

San Diego, Cal., temporary naval camp. 3, 500 

San Pedro, Cal., naval reserve training. 1, 000 


Total. 11,500 

Prescott, Ariz.: 

Whipple Barracks. 

Fort Apache, regular fort. 

Fort Huachuca, regular fort. 



















































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Seattle, Wash., District. 

ARMY CAMPS. 


Helena, Mont.: Fort Wm. Henry Harrison, regular fort. 500 

Missoula, Mont.: Fort Missoula, regular fort. 500 

Boise, Idaho: Boise Barracks, regular fort. 500 

Tacoma, Wash.: Camp Lewis, National Army. 30,000 

Seattle, Wash.: 

Fort Lawton, regular fort. 500 

Fort Ward, regular fort. 500 

Fort Whitman, regular fort. 500 

Port Townsend, Wash.: 

Fort Casey, regular fort. 500 

Fort Flagler, regular fort. 500 

Fort Worden, regular fort. 500 

Spokane, Wash.: Fort George Wright, regular fort. 500 

Vancouver, Wash.: Ahncouver Barracks, regular fort. 

Portland, Oreg.: Fort Stevens, regular fort. 500 

In Washington—Fort Canby, regular fort. 500 

In Washington—P'ort Columbia, regular fort. 500 


Total. 36,500 


NAVAL AND MARINE CAMPS. 


Puget Sound, Wash.: 

Temporary naval camp. 5, 000 

University of Washington, naval training station. 1,000 


Total..;. 6,000 


Naturalization district. 

Contonments 
in each 
naturalization 
district. 

Other Army 
camps in each 
district. 

Men. 

Boston, Mass. 

1 

24 

42,000 

New York, N. Y. 

2 

10 

68.500 

35.500 
584', 506 

35,000 
95, .500 
128,000 
5,500 

32.500 

34.500 

36.500 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

1 

4 

Washington, D. C. 

17 

34 

Pittsburgh, Pa. 

1 

3 

Chicago, Ill.. 

3 

4 

St. Louis, Mo. 

4 

9 

St. Paul, Minn. 


3 

Denver, Colo. 

1 

5 

San Francisco, Cal. 

1 

9 

13 

Seattle, Wash. 

1 


Total. 

32 

118 

1,098,000 



Cantonments, 960,000; other Army camps, 138,000; 20 naval and marine stations, 
with 97,700 enlisted men, among whom, it is understood, there is a considerable 
number of unnaturalized aliens. 

























































































































